Michaela Woolum, 6, gets some batting assistance from Sonny Boring during Friday's baseball game at the Salvation Army's Day Camp as part of the group's Olympic Week activities.

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Faced with a budget gap of almost $40,000, the Salvation Army in Chillicothe is considering cutting back on some of its services and charging for others.

For the past decade, the Chillicothe Corps of the charitable organization had come to rely on a single donor whose annual $75,000 gift accounted for about a quarter of the total budget. When that donor died this past fall, Lts. Carnith and Krystal Boring - the pastors and corps officers who have run the Salvation Army's day-to-day operations in Ross County since July 2011 - knew they had to scale back spending and draft a new, leaner budget.